Which game did collections best?
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Looking at the past three years, and looking at this from the perspective as 'what if cards didnt expire', otherwise everyone would obviously hate on 2023 and 2024
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2023
Collection choice pack, 3 cards. occasionally elite, but often just great or very good especially later in the year. In general, if you played all programs and did online content you would earn everything needed, stubs only needed to bypass content. Quite grindy to do so at times due to longer programs, but you saw these cards commonly, even at lower levels. A few other decent cards, some stubs, and a ton of xp along the way. TA collections introduced later in the year as well, with good quality cards -
2024
Similar to 2023, somewhat easier to earn due to less grind in general, although TA was a pretty constant thing. Lots of good packs in the collection path as well. Later in year they added card set specific collections that were fairly easy to get the top rewards from. -
2025
Several small collections requiring cards to be purchased from market unless extremely lucky. These, along with other general card type collections, feed into bigger collections. Rolen aside, these cards are beyond 'great' and are elite. Will cost a LOT of stubs to get when current, somewhat less over time but as of yet are not able to be gotten through regular grind (instead its grind for stubs to buy cards). You will see these cards MUCH less frequently on lower ranked levels and they have a prestige that a card like that 2023 Chipper didn't have because everyone and their mother was using it. Significantly less rewards along the way, its mostly only the cards themselves
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I like a good grind and prefer to earn cards instead of stub buy them, so its 2023 easily for me, though I may be the only vote for it
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I think this year is better because I like the lots of little collections feeding into the one big collection. Before, there were three rewards per season, but now there are about 4-5 in the same amount of time that usually arent too expensive
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@Talkingben9558_XBL said in Which game did collections best?:
I think this year is better because I like the lots of little collections feeding into the one big collection. Before, there were three rewards per season, but now there are about 4-5 in the same amount of time that usually arent too expensive
The big difference is collections were all earned through gameplay (no stubs spent) in the 23/24 model, and there are very little sub rewards (You could argue [censored] Allen and Wagner are subrewards, but no packs)
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Which game did collections best?:
@Talkingben9558_XBL said in Which game did collections best?:
I think this year is better because I like the lots of little collections feeding into the one big collection. Before, there were three rewards per season, but now there are about 4-5 in the same amount of time that usually arent too expensive
The big difference is collections were all earned through gameplay (no stubs spent) in the 23/24 model, and there are very little sub rewards (You could argue [censored] Allen and Wagner are subrewards, but no packs)
In those years you also have cards attached to Events and BR.
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Last year I was able to complete all the set collections as an offline nms player and this year I only have been able to do judge one
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@Teak2112_MLBTS
You actually had to spend more stubs to complete the set collections, but those were spread over a longer period of time. You could get to one boss by the end of the season without spending stubs, but if you wanted to complete it, most of the cards you had to buy were 10-20k, while most of the cards you have to buy for New Threads, for example, are below 10k stubs. I think I only had to buy 2 or 3 cards over 10k stubs to complete it. -
Pulling up last years game to check
Season 2, 250 cards needed cardsProgram cards: 105 (including packs)
Conquest: 11 cards, maybe more
Mini Season: 3 Cards
TA: 90 Cards
Collections: 19 (including the first 2 bosses and packs from All Star one, as they were choice you could guarantee non dupes)
XP Path: 14 cards
Cornerstone: 4 cards
Future Series: 8 cardsTotal Offline cards: 254/250
Not to mention 36 BR Henchman, and all the event cards
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I didn’t care that the cards “expired” because they came back at the end. I found myself earning all the divisions within a few days in 2023 and 2024. I got bored going back to this format after inning 3 at 12% with my team and 0% with every other team. I pretty much just play franchise now.
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Just in case Season 2 was a fluke, season 1 was the pack heavy season last year. Roughly 310/325 offline only, including all the packs in the recap track (again, these were choice so you could guarantee no dupes). I'm probably short a bunch, but you may have needed some BR henchman in Season 1
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Fun fact: Spotlight programs had 5 cards last year. But 5 is too many! Better cut it to three!
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23 Easily, 24 a close second, 25 - "go get it out of the ocean" but just leave it there
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Some people you just can't please.
Sets and Seasons: I hate grinding for cards that expire and everyone has the same lineups.
Power Creep: I hate grinding for cards that are lower rated than the ones that are in packs.
They can't give out ALL of the best cards for free (Grind 99) or people would complain there is no lineup diversity.
